Note 28 — IV. THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD.
Reading edition
This term—mashchîthîm—is certainly not the plur. of the mashchîth, "pitfall" or "trap," of v. 26. The meaning is the same as in Isa. i. 4. The original force of the root shachath is seen in the Assyrian shachâtu, "to fall down."